{"id":5209,"date":"2017-12-05T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:10:49","slug":"agent-had-no-duty-to-elect-against-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5209","title":{"rendered":"Agent Had no Duty to Elect Against Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agent under of a power of attorney did not have a duty to claim an elective share of the estate of a deceased spouse when the surviving spouse was entitled to a gift in trust equal to the elective share, even though the gift in trust was not an &#8220;available resource&#8221; because it would not be part of the surviving spouse&#8217;s estate for purposes of the Estate Recovery Program and the Department of Human Services would be unable to recover medical assistance provided to the surviving spouse.\u00a0 <em>Bond Estate<\/em>, 7 Fid.Rep.3d 313 (York Co. O.C. 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agent under of a power of attorney did not have a duty to claim an elective share of the estate of a deceased spouse when the surviving spouse was entitled to a gift in trust equal to the elective &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[593,639,638,181],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-agents-duties","tag-estate-recovery-program","tag-medical-assistance","tag-spousal-election","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}